Author/illustrator Jeanette Winters and publisher Harcourt will soon be releasing a picture book based on a true story; about a librarian in Basra Iraq who at the outbreak of war saved books by putting them into hiding.
The real librarian, Alia Muhammad Baker, now hopes with the help of the publisher to put a portion of the funds to use rebuilding the destroyed library. Story from Bookselling This Week.
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